NASA headed towards giant golden asteroid that could make everyone on Earth a billionaire

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[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is such neoliberal bullshit. A billionaire can buy a million smartphones while an average person can only buy a few.

Am I missing something? Why would the average person ever own a million smartphones? Ever?

From an environmental point of view, I would actually oppose such wasteful hoarding.

Ah yes, the false dichotomy between capitalism and communism. Try harder boomer.

It's possible to criticize both dude. Just because the current situation is bad, doesn't mean we are living in the worst one.

[–]EthnocratArcheofuturist[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Am I missing something? Why would the average person ever own a million smartphones? Ever?

Are you really that dense? It's about the gap between the billionaire and the average person.

It's possible to criticize both dude.

Are you even reading my comments?

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you really that dense? It's about the gap between the billionaire and the average person.

And I would argue it just ends up becoming diminishing returns. Owning a million cellphones doesn't make you god. It's possible to get by in life owning just 1 or 2 phones. If someone owns a million, they better find a way to make a return on their investment, or they just own a stockpile of junk.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why would the average person ever own a million smartphones?

To run a lucrative click-farm. A 'million' phones would be excessively hard to manage, but a few thousand is doable. Click on ads, or sell likes, upvotes (or downvotes!), and pretty much any action you can perform on a site. Ads probably make more money though.

https://ppcprotect.com/blog/ad-fraud/what-is-a-click-farm/

Or do an image search for click farm.

[–]radicalcentristNational Centrism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Your own link mentions that possessing a large array of cellphones is actually cheap

Another reason why people often opt to use click farms is that they are incredibly cheap. Many businesses will run online social media marketing campaigns on Facebook and Twitter in the hopes of increasing their followers. However, sometimes they aren’t always as successful as they would like which raises the question: should the money be spent elsewhere?With fake likes and followers only costing a few dollars for hundreds, many businesses are giving up running campaigns and are just buying the likes directly. In the long run, this is considerably cheaper and most people won’t even notice the difference in the likes.

Regardless, the goal seems to be about artificially increasing exposure in websites, but that's not something exclusive to the rich. For example, videos go viral all the time, for something as simple like a cat yawning or something. If you have to pay millions of dollars to recreate the same success model, I would argue that's inefficiency, rather than a wealth disparity.